Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the
links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of
Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture.
- Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon
period and issues we think about today
- Reveals how material culture--the history of labor, medicine,
technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use--is as
important as the history of ideas
- Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many
disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies